11:57
Ukraine claims to have overcome a new assault on Avdiivka
The Ukrainian army said today that it had repelled a new Russian assault on the town of Avdiivka, an industrial city in the east of the country targeted in recent weeks by intense Russian attacks. She assured that she had inflicted “numerous losses” on the adversary. “The enemy has renewed its attacks and is not abandoning its attempts to encircle Avdiivka,” the Ukrainian army general staff said in its morning report on Facebook. “Our soldiers firmly hold the defense lines,” he continued, affirming that the Russian army lost around 900 men and 150 armored vehicles destroyed or ruined in this area over the course of 24 hours.
10:40
IOC “strongly rejects” Vladimir Putin’s accusations of discrimination
Limitations on the participation of Russian athletes in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris have angered the Russian president, who accuses the IOC of “ethnic discrimination”. In a letter to AFP, a spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee responded:
We strongly reject accusations that these measures constitute “ethnic discrimination”.
09:34
Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva in Russian justice
A Russian court said today it was examining a request for pre-trial detention of Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, arrested this week and becoming the second American reporter detained in Russia, reports AFP. A broad crackdown has been launched in Russia against independent media, NGOs, journalists, lawyers and political opponents since the Kremlin launched its assault on Ukraine in February 2022.
While many Russian activists and reporters have fled their country for fear of arrest, many others – famous and anonymous – have been imprisoned. The Sovetsky Court of Kazan in Tatarstan told the press that Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist with the American media Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was being prosecuted for violating obligations for her registration as a “foreign agent”, and that the investigators therefore requested his incarceration.
08:32
Vladimir Putin visits the headquarters of his operation in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the headquarters of the Russian army for the operation in Ukraine in Rostov-on-Don on Thursday, the Kremlin announced today. During this trip, the Russian president met with the chief of staff and commander of military operations in Ukraine, Valéri Gerassimov, who presented him with a report on the state of the Russian offensive, according to the same source. This meeting comes as Ukraine announced on Tuesday that it had successfully used for the first time ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 165 km, which the United States delivered to it in the utmost secrecy.
08:13
Vladimir Putin went to Rostov, to the military headquarters of the operation
Vladimir Putin visited the headquarters of the Russian army in Rostov-on-Don, the Kremlin announced. The Russian president “visited the headquarters of the Russian armed forces in Rostov-on-Don on his way back from Perm”, in the Urals where he spent the whole day on Thursday, the Kremlin said in a press release. During this trip, he met with the chief of staff and commander of military operations in Ukraine, Valeri Gerassimov, who presented him with a report on the state of the Russian offensive.
This meeting comes as Ukraine announced on Tuesday that it had successfully used for the first time ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 165 km – which the United States delivered to it in great secrecy. Vladimir Putin, for his part, estimated on Wednesday that these deliveries will have no influence on the course of the conflict and will only prolong Ukraine’s “agony”. Close to Ukraine, Rostov-on-Don has become an operational center for Russian forces in Ukraine.
The Russian President and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, October 20, 2023. — © GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/KREMLIN / POOL / keystone-sda.ch
04:23
US will be safe ‘for generations’ if it helps Ukraine, Joe Biden says
Hamas and Russian President Vladimir Putin “both want to completely wipe out a neighboring democracy,” US President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation. He calls for “urgent” funding of aid to Israel and Ukraine, “essential partners”. The United States of America will be more secure “for generations” if it helps these two countries at war, insisted the American president in this speech broadcast from the Oval Office of the White House. By linking the defense of Israel to that of Ukraine, he hopes that he will succeed in finding the consensus that he has so far lacked in Congress to finance additional military assistance to kyiv.
The American president spoke a few hours before his speech with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, who has already thanked him on the telephone for the “vital support” of the United States. If Joe Biden’s Republican adversaries are for some hesitant on military aid to Ukraine, they are the first to demand massive support for Israel, a muscular stance on immigration and a firm attitude towards China.
According to a source close to the discussions, the White House wants to ask Congress for a colossal envelope of 100 billion dollars for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the migration crisis on the border with Mexico. Joe Biden, whose country has spent tens of billions for Ukraine, must not only overcome the weariness of some elected officials but also of American public opinion in the face of a lasting conflict.
2023-10-20 11:37:35
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